Psychopathology

The MMPI-A is designed to measure characteristics of personality and psychopathology among adolescents.

Our fear and loathing for parasites is obviously adaptive. But this fear can itself mutate into a psychopathology.

The prevalence and risks of the four psychopathologies and their comorbidities, serious mental illness, and suicidalities increased significantly with internet addiction severity (p values from 0·0003 to <0·0001), and most increments in risk were large (ORs increasing more than four times, except for suicidalities) for students with moderate and severe internet addiction.